[The content is purely fictitious, please forgive me if it is unreasonable]
When he was eighteen years old, Chen Xing was told: You have no talent, you will leave in June.
On a rainy night in London, he practiced in an empty stadium until he collapsed from exhaustion. When he woke up, he found himself standing at the Alpi Stadium in Turin in 1990, wearing an England team jersey with a name printed on the back——
Gascoigne.
The mission: score the penalty that changed history.
From then on, a young man who was abandoned by reality began to shuttle between legendary regrets. He was the shot behind Baggio in 1994, the arc after Beckham's red card in 1998, and the deep breath before Zidane headed Materazzi in 2006.
Every soul penetration is a redemption.
Every time he comes back, he has one more superstar skill.
When the England team was in dire straits in the semi-finals of the real World Cup, and when 90,000 people in the audience chanted "Change Chen Xing, come on", people discovered that——
The Chinese-American boy who was eliminated from the youth training carried the regrets of an entire generation of legends, and also carried the hopes of the entire England.
This is not a time travel story.
This is the story of a young man who, on behalf of all the heroes, won the game he failed to win.
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This is the first time I've seen a regretful football article. Collect it first.
This is the first time I've seen a regretful football article. Collect it first.